I was at the yesterday morning flying my 600N and noticed a guy with his 600 strapped to a table. He said that he was breaking his engine in. He told me he sets his normal pitch curve to 0 degrees all the way across and straps his heli down for safety and breaks his engine in that way. Just wanted to post this to see what you guys think. If you guys think this would work I think I will try it on my second 600N that is almost finished. What do you guys think?

He said that he was breaking in his first heli and the engine cut out on him while hovering causing him to crash. So he came up with this idea to stop him from crashing due to engine cutout during breakin. He said he's broke in two other helis that way. Sounded interesting. Thought I would get thoughts from people here. So you think overspeeding would be a problem? Maybe if you put 1 to 2 degrees of pitch all the way across it would help. I just thought it looked funny. I've only been flying nitros for about 2 months.

Yeah, it wouldnt even take 1/4 throttle on a 50 to get up to around 2000 rpm with no pitch on the blades. In Bob's break in video on the 600N he talks about keeping the rpm different in the break in. I would of thought that to break an engine in the throttle needs to be exercised. The only way to do that is to add load that way increasing throttle while not affecting headspeed.

Also part of the break in process is tuning the engine. That cant be done under no load. When the engine is broken in like that and then flown it is not tuned for load. must be a big shock factor to a new engine that only knows what unloaded running is then being forced to run +11 -11 pitch

Sounds like madness to me. I dont know what someone who cant auto from a hover is doing flying helis anyway

Just reading over my last post and it sounds a little harsh :o If i were you I would hover it to break it in. I see you have a few helis already and i'm sure you could auto down from a hover.

I personally look at break in not only dfrom the engines point of view. In this period you can fine tune trim and gyro function and get a general feel for the heli. Seems a waste to strap it to a bench.

I thought it looked a little crazy. Seen him again this morning while I was flying. He was messing with the engine needles the whole 2 hours I was there. Just seeing that now I know his idea is no good. It onlyy took me about 6 - 7 tanks to get my engine set. Haven't touched my needles yet. Think I'll stick with the normal method of breakin. Thanks for your comments. I knew I'd get the right answer here.

I'm cracking up reading this post, now if he's at a club don't you have season heli pilot to help him out?

You need to do him a favor and give him helifreaks website and point him to Bob's videos, I'm new to nitro (since Nov, have 7 gallons on my bird) I don't spend more than five minutes to get my bird in the air.

I told him about this website. He said he woud check it out. I can see where he's coming from, he works third shift like I do and there is noone around in the morning. Luckily I found Helifreak a while back. Now hopefully he will see the light.